Our /cloudfiles/store Robot

Export files to Rackspace Cloud Files

🤖/cloudfiles/store exports encoding results to Rackspace Cloud Files.

A note about URLs

If your container is CDN-enabled, the resulting file.url indicates the path to the file in your CDN container, or is null otherwise.

The storage container URL for this file is always available via file.meta.storage_url.

Usage example

Export uploaded files to my_target_folder on Rackspace Cloud Files:

{
  "steps": {
    "exported": {
      "robot": "/cloudfiles/store",
      "use": ":original",
      "credentials": "YOUR_CLOUDFILES_CREDENTIALS",
      "path": "my_target_folder/${unique_prefix}/${file.url_name}"
    }
  }
}

Parameters

  • use

    String / Array of Strings / Object required

    Specifies which Step(s) to use as input.

    • You can pick any names for Steps except ":original" (reserved for user uploads handled by Transloadit)

    • You can provide several Steps as input with arrays:

      "use": [
  ":original",
  "encoded",
  "resized"
]

    💡 That’s likely all you need to know about use, but you can view Advanced use cases.

  • credentials

    Stringrequired

    Please create your associated Template Credentials in your Transloadit account and use the name of your Template Credentials as this parameter's value. They will contain the values for your Cloud Files Container, User, Key, Account type and Data center.

    While we recommend to use Template Credentials at all times, some use cases demand dynamic credentials for which using Template Credentials is too unwieldy because of their static nature. If you have this requirement, feel free to use the following parameters instead: "account_type" ("us" or "uk"), "data_center" ("dfw" for Dallas or "ord" for Chicago for example), "user", "key", "container".

  • path

    String ⋅ default: "${unique_prefix}/${file.url_name}"

    The path at which to store the file. This value can also contain Assembly variables.

Note: The URLs in the result JSON already point to the file on your target storage platform, so you can just save that URL in your database.

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